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Master Word List 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| industrious | hard-working |
| belligerent | quarrelsome |
| polish | refinement and culture |
| gaucheness | awkwardness |
| list | tilt; lean over |
| philanderer | flirt; faithless lover |
| chary | hesitant and reluctant to proceed |
| ensnare | catch |
| redoubtable | formidable; causing fear |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| scad | great quantity |
| lackluster | dull |
| entice | attract; lure |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| sumptuous | lavish; rich |
| limber | flexible |
| oblique | indirect; slanting |
| slur | slander; insult to one's character or reputation |
| hedge | limit or qualify |
| spunk | spirit; pluck; courage |
| sage | person celebrated for wisdom |
| braggart | boaster |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| stupefy | make numb; stun; amaze |
| enliven | make something more lively |
| stilted | stiffly formal and unnatural |
| ungainly | awkward |
| quixotic | idealistic but impractical |
| restiveness | impatience; difficult to control |
| hallow | consecrate; make holly |
| harbinger | forerunner |
| spur | to incite or encourage |
| mealymouthed | hypocritical; indirect in speech |
| luminary | celebrity; dignitary |
| desecrate | profane |
| nonentity | a person of no importance |
| mutineer | rebel |
| nefarious | very wicked |
| begrudge | resent |
| bilk | cheat; swindle |
| cavil | make frivolous objection |
| crass | very unrefined; grossly insensible |
| protract | prolong |
| prim | proper; precise; formal |
| repugnance | loathing |
| nettle | annoy; vex |
| replete | filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supllied |
| paltry | insignificant; petty |
| munificent | very generous |
| improvident | thriftless |
| obsolete | outmoded |
| dissuade | discourage |
| extol | praise |
| exhort | urge |
| splenetic | ill humor; irritability |
| unscathed | unharmed |
| fetter | shackle; restrict from freedom |
| slack | sluggish; moving slowly |
| recoil | to spring back; to shrink back |
| encumber | burden |
| seedy | run-down; decrepit; disreputable |
| boggle | hesitate |
| hidebound | inflexible; narrow-minded |
| gambol | to jump about playfully |
| plod | to walk heavily |
| buoyant | lighthearted |
| raucous | harsh and shrill; disorderly and boisterous |
| mellifluous | sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious |
| pulchritude | beauty |
| unsightliness | unattractive |
| desultory | aimless; degressing at random |
| gamely | with courage |
| crestfallen | dejected; dispirited |
| haughty | scornfully and condescendingly proud |
| jettison | throw overboard |
| embroil | to involve in argument; contention |
| vouchsafe | grant condescendingly; guarantee |
| diminution | lessening; reduction in size |
| high-handed | dictatorial; domineering |
| taper | candle; decrease in thickness |
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minea
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